you will be joined by vice president joe biden is a native of scranton, pennsylvania. a quick reminder about tonight's town hall meeting on c-span. we are opening our phone lines and getting your thoughts on college costs, the student loan program and the valley of education. we are asking you to join in the conversation on our facebook page or on twitter using the hashtag cspanchat. life education town hall starts at 7:30 p.m. eastern again at c-span, our companion network. >> while we wait for the president the issue of school choice and the role of the federal government in education was discussed at the westin conservative summit at colorado christian university earlier this summer. here's a look. >> 237 years after our founding we've come to a fork in the road in education. one side we have educational freedom in the form of school choice. and the other side we have the greatest push, national common core education standards. so milton friedman, his birthday is next wednesday by the way, was the father of the school choice movement. the school choice movement came